426 AMERICAN GAME BIRD SHOOTING 
sible, late in the evening or early in the morning, to 
pass under their roosts in a boat. If birds can be found 
in such a situation there is opportunity for good shoot- 
ing with a rifle. 
A very successful method of shooting them in Mis- 
souri is to ride through the timber on horseback, for 
the birds are not as shy of the approach of a rider as 
they are of a footman. On the other hand, turkeys 
alarmed are likely to make for swamps or down tim- 
ber, where a horse cannot go. 
If a flock of turkeys is scattered in the evening, at 
sundown, or frightened from its roost at night, the 
hunter who can be at the place before sunrise is likely 
to be able to get a number of shots by calling up the 
birds. 
Shooting turkeys from the roost at night is a method 
that does not present many features of sport. Track- 
ing birds in the snow is good sport, and calls for work 
and endurance. It is a very certain method of get- 
ting turkeys, but is obviously to be practiced only where 
snow falls. 
An excellent description of the country in which 
turkeys are found in Arkansas, and of the opportuni- 
ties which used to come to the turkey hunters there, 
is found in an account written by J. E. London in the 
spring of 1900. He says: 
“While I was engaged in having some assessment 
work done on some mining lands in Newton County, 
Ark., in December, 1899, I was informed by some boys 
